Pets - The Un-cage-able Ones

Post by Dorren

When Patch 5.0.4 was launched, all of our non-combat vanity pets across all our characters were put into one, easy access interface. The only problem was... duplicate pets. I know you can have three of each kind of pet and that some can be caged and sold/traded/given away... but what about the unique pets that you can't cage?

I only want to have one of each pet and I want to eventually "catch them all" so... these "un-cage-able" duplicates of these unique pets are taking up room in my pet interface.

Should I just release them?

Some of these unique pets include the Argent Gruntling/Squire, the Alliance Balloon and Horde Balloon, Miniwing, Withers, the Panther Cub (which I have nine of!) and the list goes on.

So my question is, does keeping these un-cage-able duplicates of unique pets have any purpose or should I just release them all?

Post by captncraig

Do any of the duplicates have different stats at all? if you are interested in battling them it might make a difference which one you keep.

Post by ElhonnaDS

The only purpose would be to level multiples of those pets so you can use more than one in a Pet Battle team. I personally released every duplicate I couldn't cage.

Post by Atik

I'm holding on to my second phoenix hatchling to level up after I'm done with the first one. But I generally released any other duplicates.

Post by Nulgar

Do any of the duplicates have different stats at all? if you are interested in battling them it might make a difference which one you keep.

Nope, the pets from quests or the pet store etc. are always identical. I would understand if they gave us three, but there's no cap at all, you got as many as you have characters that learned them. For me, that took me way over the limit of 500 total pets (silly idea as there are 400+ pets to gather) so I had to cage/release several pets before I could learn Fishy...

Post by Kaitrosebd

There are achievements and extra vanity pets you can gain from catching x number of rare pets or leveling x number of pets, so I tend to keep all my rares for the achievements, the slightly varied stats, for battles where one pet is exceptionally good, and for future leveling purposes. I typically release any duplicates that are not rare though unless they are exceptionally hard to find like the Unborn Val'Kyr etc.

Post by Interest

I'd say keep 3 and release anything beyond that (since 3 is the team max), though I personally don't follow that rule...at all....

Post by Buckles

I was always under the impression that you can't have more than 3 of any pet.

Post by felhunter

I was always under the impression that you can't have more than 3 of any pet.

you can't with new pets you collect. but if you had more then 3 characters with a pet learned when MoP went Live with the pet change. you could exceed the max of 3.

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